Yoshio Inaba Movies

The womanising master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to reg...

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect.

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet....

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household...

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never...

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based...

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacif...